Steve Malanga is City Journal Senior Editor, a Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow, and a RealClearMarkets.com columnist. He writes about the intersection of urban economies, business communities, and public policy.

Prior to joining City Journal, Malanga was executive editor of Crain’s New York Business for seven years, serving on the publication’s editorial board and writing a weekly column. He also supervised special projects, including investigative stories. Before that, Malanga served for seven years as managing editor of Crain’s. During his tenure at the publication it twice won the General Excellence award from the Association of Area Business Publications (AABP).

In 1995, Malanga was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism for the series “Nonprofits: New York’s new Tammany Hall,” which he co-authored. In 1998, a series he co-authored, “Tort-ured State,” about the influence of trial lawyers in New York State, was voted best investigative story of the year by the AABP. The previous year, a computer-assisted project that Steve designed, reported, and wrote on Small Business Administration loans in New York City was voted one of the year’s best investigative stories by AABP. Malanga has also written articles on various topics for The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, New York Post, and other publications. Malanga is the author of The New New Left, (Ivan R. Dee, 2005). His newest book, The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's, coauthored with Heather Mac Donald and Victor Davis Hanson, chronicles the effects of broken immigration laws and proposes a practical solution to securing the country's porous borders.

Malanga holds an M.A. in English Literature and Language from the University of Maryland, where he worked for several years as a Master Teacher helping to oversee the university’s writing program. He received his B.A. in English Literature and Language from St. Vincent’s College in Latrobe, PA.

Steven Malanga was born and raised in Newark, NJ.

Select Media

• Upfront with Vicki McKenna, WIBA, 8-6-09
• Bill Cunningham Show, WLW, 8-6-09
• Small Business Advocate, Small Business Network, 8-5-09
• Fox Business with Stuart Varney, Fox Business Network, 7-1-09
• WNBC News, 6-30-09
• Lee Rogers Show, KSFO, 5-29-09

Articles/Op-eds

• And Now, On to Immigration Reform, RealClearMarkets, 11-18-09
• Health Reform's Moral Hazard, RealClearMarkets, 11-11-09
• The Bull's Eye On Business' Back, RealClearMarkets, 11-04-09
• Bribing the Voters of New Jersey, New York Post, 11-01-09
• The IRS, And Our Latest Housing Scam, RealClearMarkets, 10-28-09
• Behind NY's Small-Business Drop, New York Post, 10-26-09
• To Cut Your Health Insurance Costs, Move, RealClearMarkets, 10-21-09
• Small Businesses to NYC: Get Off Our Backs!, RealClearMarkets, 10-19-09
• Driving Off Another Mortgage Cliff, RealClearMarkets, 10-14-09
• Tax the Rich? How's That Working?, RealClearMarkets, 10-07-09
• Soak-The-Rich Strategies Backfire In State After Deficit-Ridden State, Investor's Business Daily, 10-07-09
• How the WFP dooms NYC democrats, New York Post, 10-01-09
• Mortgage Deadbeats Plague Home Market, RealClearMarkets, 09-30-09
• A Grandstanding Politician Investigates Wall Street, RealClearMarkets, 09-23-09
• Acorn's a Creature of the CRA, RealClearMarkets, 09-16-09
• Tax-and-Offend Charlie Rangel, RealClearMarkets, 09-09-09
• Japan Is Losing Its Ultimate Resource, RealClearMarkets, 09-02-09
• Taxes Dedicated to Misleading Taxpayers, RealClearMarkets, 08-26-09
• Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic?, Dallas Morning News, 08-21-09
• How Free Health Care Got So Expensive, RealClearMarkets, 08-19-09
• Spending More Won't Cut Health Care Costs, RealClearMarkets, 08-12-09
• The Unseen Economic Harm Wrought by Clunkers, RealClearMarkets, 08-05-09
• Bailing Out Homeowners Isn't Easy, RealClearMarkets, 07-29-09
• Dykstra: Another Too-Good-To-Be-True Story, RealClearMarkets, 07-15-09
• Are the Good Times Really Back On Wall Street?, RealClearMarkets, 07-08-09
• Budget-Cut ABCs, New York Post, 07-06-09
• Government Will Control Medical Costs?, RealClearMarkets, 07-01-09
• States Place Bad Bets With Gambling, RealClearMarkets, 06-24-09
• Trying To Cover the Unenthusiastic Uninsured, RealClearMarkets, 06-17-09
• Why Inflation Is So Scary, RealClearMarkets, 06-10-09
• Militant Unions Raise Muni Risk, RealClearMarkets, 06-03-09
• Washington Helped Fuel Our Credit Card Woes, RealClearMarkets, 05-27-09
• Notable & Quotable, Wall Street Journal, 05-21-09
• Capitalism and the Cheating Ethic, RealClearMarkets, 05-20-09
• Unions vs. Taxpayers, Wall Street Journal, 05-14-09
• Obama Gets Tax Policy Backwards, RealClearMarkets, 05-13-09
• Obsessive Housing Disorder, RealClearPolitics, 05-10-09
• Federal Homeownership Subsidies Have Left A Trail Of Catastrophes, Investor's Business Daily, 05-06-09
• Chrysler Meets Obama, Man of the System, RealClearMarkets, 05-06-09
• Shackling NY, New York Post, 05-05-09
• Yankee Stadium and the Power of Sports Monopolies, RealClearMarkets, 04-29-09
• Public Pension Funds Become Political Playthings, RealClearPolitics, 04-22-09
• Inviting Corruption, New York Post, 04-16-09
• Politicians Love the Tax Code We Hate, RealClearMarkets, 04-15-09
• Obama and the Reawakening of Corporatism, RealClearMarkets, 04-08-09
• First the Politicians Come After the Rich..., RealClearMarkets, 04-01-09
• The Dancing With the Stars Economy, RealClearMarkets, 03-25-09
• Cities, College Grads and the Inequality Gap, RealClearMarkets, 03-18-09
• Our Real Estate Obsession Endures, RealClearMarkets, 03-11-09
• Feds' Full Circle On Mortgages, New York Post, 03-06-09
• Planned Tax Hikes On 'The Rich' Will Hurt Entrepreneurial Growth, Investor's Business Daily, 03-04-09
• How Many Entrepreneurs Can Government Create?, RealClearMarkets, 03-04-09
• Should We Let California Go Bankrupt?, RealClearMarkets, 02-25-09
• Feds Re-Impose Loan Standards They Helped Undermine, RealClearMarkets, 02-18-09
• Housing Won't Lead Us Out of Recession, RealClearMarkets, 02-11-09
• Government: The One Price That's Still Rising, RealClearMarkets, 02-04-09
• Will Dems Move To Gut Welfare Reform?, New York Post, 02-03-09
• Can Free Markets Survive In a Secularized World?, RealClearMarkets, 01-28-09
• Can Free-Market Values Survive In An Increasingly Secular World?, Investor's Business Daily, 01-28-09
• Geithner and Our Incomprehensible Tax System, RealClearMarkets, 01-21-09
• Obama: Labor Friendly, or Worker Friendly?, RealClearMarkets, 01-14-09
• Are Tax Revolts a Thing of the Past?, RealClearMarkets, 01-07-09
• Save Jobs. Buy Something, RealClearMarkets, 12-23-08
• Our Infrastructure Boondoggles to Nowhere, RealClearMarkets, 12-17-08
• Higher Ed Spending: Another Phony Stimulus?, RealClearMarkets, 12-10-08
• Mumbai, Terrorists and Capitalists, RealClearMarkets, 12-08-08
• Will 'Wal-Mart Effect' Be Diluted By Capital's New Strain Of Politics?, Investor's Business Daily, 11-28-08
• Dispelling foreclosure myths, Dallas Morning News, 11-25-08
• Nations Competing With Tax Cuts, Not Increases, RealClearMarkets, 11-19-08
• Our Spendthrift States Don't Need a Bailout, Wall Street Journal, 11-18-08
• Librarians and Other Keynesians, RealClearMarkets, 11-12-08
• Blue States Will Pay Obama Tax Bill, RealClearMarkets, 11-03-08
• Foreclosure Myths: Can the Media Handle the Truth?, RealClearMarkets, 10-29-08
• Turns Left, Forbes, 10-28-08
• Taxing Time for Ballot Questions, RealClearMarkets, 10-22-08
• No Government Jobs Recession Yet, RealClearMarkets, 10-15-08
• The Bailout and the Vanishing Taxpayer, RealClearMarkets, 10-08-08
• The Long Road to Slack Lending Standards, RealClearMarkets, 10-01-08
• The Mortgage Mess Began on Main Street, RealClearMarkets, 09-24-08
• Can Wall Street Re-Invent Itself Again?, RealClearMarkets, 09-17-08
• In America, The Poor Don't Work, RealClearMarkets, 09-10-08
• Organizer in Chief: Barack Obama's Controversial Roots, New York Post, 09-08-08
• How Will Obama's Tax Plan Impact the Economy?, RealClearMarkets, 09-03-08
• Tax Rebates Redistribute Wealth, RealClearMarkets, 08-29-08
• Despite Press Claims To Contrary, Corporations Do Pay Their Taxes, Investor's Business Daily, 08-27-08
• The Plague of Professional Panhandling, Dallas Morning News, 08-26-08
• Do Corporations Really Pay No Taxes?, RealClearMarkets, 08-20-08
• Jersey: A Lesson in Failure for NY, New York Post, 08-19-08
• Jersey's True Test, New York Post, 08-18-08
• President Obama Won't Revive Unions, RealClearMarkets, 08-13-08
• Anti- Vs. Pro-Business Environments Separate Red States From The Black, Investor's Business Daily, 08-08-08
• Anti-Business States Awash In Red Ink, RealClearMarkets, 08-06-08
• Let's Privatize Our Roadways, RealClearMarkets, 07-30-08
• No Holding Back: All We Need To Do is Follow The Law, RealClearMarkets, 07-13-08
• The Zero at Ground Zero, RealClearMarkets, 07-02-08
• Pols Remain Masters of Domain, RealClearMarkets, 06-25-08
• In the U.S., Selectively Applied Capitalism, RealClearMarkets, 06-23-08
• Bud Out, Foreign Investors, RealClearMarkets, 06-18-08
• The Trial Bar Behind Bars, RealClearMarkets, 06-11-08
• Sarkozy and Unhappy French Workers, RealClearMarkets, 06-04-08
• Income Inequality in the NFL, RealClearMarkets, 05-28-08
• The Discordant State of Unions, RealClearMarkets, 05-21-08
• In Britain, the Economy, Stupid, RealClearMarkets, 05-14-08
• Change Kids Can Believe In, National Post, 05-14-08
• The Good News You Missed on Food Prices, RealClearMarkets, 05-07-08
• Self-Inflicted Pain Hobbles States, RealClearMarkets, 04-30-08
• Free Markets Are Rare in Starving Nations, RealClearMarkets, 04-24-08
• A Nonprofit Threat, New York Post, 04-23-08
• The Rich and Their Taxes, RealClearMarkets, 04-15-08
• Predatory Lending, or Mortgage Fraud?, RealClearMarkets, 04-09-08
• N.Y.'s problems are huge - probably too big for Paterson, New York Daily News, 03-13-08
• High Price for Rotten Government, New York Post, 03-10-08
• Breaking the Mob, New York Post, 02-14-08
• Giants-NYC: Feud Over, New York Post, 02-06-08
• The Great Black-Hispanic Split, New York Post, 01-22-08
• NY's Bloated Hospitals, New York Post, 12-20-07
• NJ's Execution Error, New York Post, 12-12-07
• Why Illegal Immigration Alone Doesn't Matter, Washington Post, 11-15-07
• The Religious Left, Reborn, Front Page Magazine, 10-19-07
• The Myth of the Latino Voting Bloc, Los Angeles Times, 10-18-07
• What Latino Voting Bloc?, Los Angeles Times, 10-18-07
• The Rise of the Religious Left, Wall Street Journal, 10-16-07
• Why New Yorkers May Soon Kiss Their Tax Cuts Goodbye, New York Daily News, 09-20-07
• Time to Promote Marriage, The New York Sun, 09-12-07
• A City Without Fathers, National Post, 08-11-07
• Are New York's Bridges Falling Down?, New York Daily News, 08-09-07
• How to Keep Our Bridges Safe, Wall Street Journal, 08-04-07
• The Sick Hipness of Dog Fighting, Chicago Sun-Times, 06-17-07
• The Immigration Bill: Seeking Skills, New York Post, 05-21-07
• The Weekend Interview with Larry Silverstein: Rebuilding Ground Zero, Wall Street Journal, 05-12-07
• Pet Plaintiffs, Wall Street Journal, 05-09-07
• Gov's Got Guts to Fight, New York Daily News, 03-08-07
• The Case for Rudy, Dallas Morning News, 03-04-07
• The Right Record, New York Post, 02-18-07
• Gov's Gimmicks Won't Fix Jersey, New York Post, 01-12-07
• NY's Hospital Bloat, New York Post, 11-29-06
• More Jobs Lost, New York Post, 10-19-06
• Acorn Squash, Wall Street Journal, 08-26-06
• Why Unskilled Immigrants Hurt America, Chicago Sun-Times, 07-23-06
• To Stop Medicaid's Bleeding, New York Post, 05-02-06
• A Foolish Way to Fight Fraud, New York Post, 03-29-06
• Can California Curb Land Grabs?, Los Angeles Times, 01-24-06
• What Would Reagan Do?, Wall Street Journal, 12-21-05
• Key to the City, Wall Street Journal, 11-10-05
• Eminently Dumb Eminent Domain, Los Angeles Times, 07-20-05
• Sending Jobs to Nassau, New York Post, 03-03-05
• Spending We Don't Need, New York Post, 02-17-05
• Off and Running, New York Post, 01-12-05
• N.Y.: Un- Free, New York Post, 01-08-05
• What's the Matter With Kansas?, Wall Street Journal, 12-06-04
• Not Just "Morality", New York Post, 11-14-04
• Gotham Proves It's Golden, New York Post, 09-07-04
• The McGreevey Mess: Next for N.J.?, New York Post, 08-19-04
• Taxing NYC's Soul, New York Post, 08-15-04
• Wage-Hike Hooey, New York Post, 07-19-04
• Class Action? Third Aisle to the Left., Wall Street Journal, 06-29-04
• The War on Walmart, Wall Street Journal, 04-07-04
• A White Elephant for the West Side, The New York Times, 03-31-04
• A New Jersey Tax Revolt, The New York Sun, 01-26-04
• The Curse of the Creative Class, Wall Street Journal, 01-19-04
• Stagflation Grips Gotham, The New York Sun, 01-15-04
• Killing Minority Business, New York Post, 01-15-04
• Shocked, Shocked by High Taxes, The New York Sun, 11-24-03
• Let CBS Air ‘The Reagans’, The New York Sun, 11-11-03
• The Partisan Answer, New York Post, 11-07-03
• Wrong Enemies, New York Post, 10-27-03
• NY's Fleeing Taxpayers, New York Post, 10-10-03
• The Wrong Reform, New York Post, 10-06-03
• Two Years Later…, The New York Sun, 09-12-03
• Picketing 101, Wall Street Journal, 08-13-03
• Smoke and Mirrors, The New York Sun, 07-30-03
• L.A. Heads Left, The New York Sun, 07-22-03
• Guess Who Hates Taxes?, New York Post, 07-21-03
• Clowning With The Law, New York Post, 06-25-03
• Shakedown, New York Post, 06-02-03
• Pataki Steps Up, New York Post, 04-27-03
• ¢hicken Little$, New York Post, 04-23-03
• Council of Dunces, The New York Sun, 04-17-03
• Clueless Execs, New York Post, 04-17-03
• New York’s Radio Days, The New York Sun, 04-02-03
• Sen. Estrada (R., N.Y.)?, Wall Street Journal, 03-04-03
• ‘Living Wage’ Is Socialism, The New York Sun, 01-30-03
• Jobs for Jersey, New York Post, 01-24-03
• An Obvious Novice, New York Post, 01-19-03
• New Yorkers Pine for the Old Deal, The New York Sun, 01-14-03
• The Left's Pro-Terror Urban Agenda, The New York Sun, 01-08-03
• Scarring the Skyline, New York Post, 01-05-03
• Bus To Bankruptcy, New York Post, 12-19-02
• New York Is Unraveling . . ., Wall Street Journal, 11-25-02
• N.Y.C. Budget Myths, New York Post, 11-11-02
• Off On The Wrong Track, New York Post, 10-31-02
• Disneyland Of Death, New York Post, 10-31-02
• Downtown: Future Hijacked, New York Post, 10-31-02
• Dinkins Redux?, New York Post, 10-24-02
• N.Y.'s Primrose Path, New York Post, 09-25-02
• Rep-Rehensible, New York Post, 08-04-02
• The Wrong Way to Rebuild, Wall Street Journal, 07-18-02
• Lead Paint Scam, New York Post, 06-24-02
• N.Y.C.'s Middle-Class Boom, New York Post, 06-10-02
• Stagflation: Albany's Gift To NY, New York Post, 05-22-02
• In New York City, Tax Freedom Day Comes Later Every Year, The New York Sun, 04-26-02
• Taxi Industry Getting Ripe for Radical Reform, The New York Sun, 04-22-02
• N.Y. Nonprofits' Killer Prosperity, New York Post, 04-18-02
• Rudy's Minority Boom--And Dave's Bust, New York Post, 04-16-02
• Minority Triumph, New York Post, 04-15-02
• Hi-Tech Looks To Gotham, New York Post, 03-11-02
• No-Pain Budget, New York Post, 02-20-02
• Sick Politics, New York Post, 02-07-02
• A Rotten Deal, New York Post, 01-23-02
• Who Will Save The N.Y.C. Gop?, New York Post, 01-13-02
• Stronger Than You Think, New York Daily News, 12-02-01
• Pork Barrel at Ground Zero, Wall Street Journal, 11-07-01
• Our Next WTC, New York Post, 10-31-01
• City On The Brink, New York Post, 10-30-01
• He's Dinkins Redux, New York Post, 10-23-01
• How N.Y.C. Votes: Money, Not Race, New York Post, 10-22-01
• Fraud Racket Drives Insurance Rates Up, Newsday, 08-07-01
• Good Teachers Matter, So Pay the Best More, New York Daily News, 08-07-01
• Not When You Look At The Facts, New York Post, 07-23-01
• How Politics Crippled N.Y. Health Care, New York Post, 07-16-01
• What Needs To Change, New York Post, 07-16-01
• No Longer The Best, New York Post, 07-16-01
• NY's Hope For Growth, New York Post, 04-30-01
• NY: Opportunity City?, New York Post, 04-29-01
• Albany's War On Drivers, New York Post, 03-29-01

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• Organizer-in-Chief Real Clear Markets, 07-25-08
• Symposium: The Immigration Solution By Heather Mac Donald, Victor Davis Hanson, and Steven Malanga, Front Page Magazine, 01-18-08
• New Jersey's Costly Immigrant Burden RealClearPolitics.com, 08-30-07 (This article originally appeared on City Journal Online, 08-29-07)
• Poisoned pets Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 05-13-07
• Da Jersey boys who inspired The Sopranos Chicago Sun-Times, 05-13-07
• Government hiring works against Jersey Newark Star-Ledger, 04-25-07
• Yes, Rudy Giuliani Is a Conservative—And an electable one, at that RealClearPolitics.com, 01-25-07
• The Cause Has Changed New York Sun, 9-27-06
• NYC: Where the Jobs Aren't New York Post, 7-17-06
• Newark's Hope New York Post, 5-15-06
• Rampant Fraud: Inside the Medicaid Mess New York Post, 5-1-06
• How 'The Sopranos' stole our good names Daily News, 3-26-06
• Gotham Stalls Out New York Sun, 7-27-05
• Who's eating you alive? New York Daily News, 7-3-05
• No Stadium Needed New York Sun, 4-1-05
• Taxpayers Revolt New York Sun, 2-23-05
• Spitzer’s Road Map New York Sun, 2-1-05
• Bigger Javits big waste of $ Daily News, 12-10-04
• Give Us the Money New York Sun, 11-23-04
• Gotham Proves Its Golden New York Post, 9-7-04
• Consultant Humbug New York Sun, 7-15-04
• Medical Monkey Business New York Sun, 5-21-04
• The War on Wal-Mart Wall Street Journal, 4-7-04
• Less crime, more jobs eased blackout NY Daily News, 8-20-03
• New York mired in defeat: Redesign efforts hampered by sentimental contradictions Boston Herald, 8-11-02
• He’s Dinkins Redux New York Post, 10-23-2001
• Coming to NY: America’s Costliest Car Insurance New York Post, February 28, 2001
• City Work: The State Wastes Health-Care Dollars Newsday, February 20, 2001

Books

• The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's (Ivan R.Dee, November 2007)
• The New New Left: How American Politics Works Today Tax Eaters vs. Taxpayers (Ivan R. Dee, May 2005)

City Journal Articles

• Killing Field Autumn 2009
• Feral Detroit Autumn 2009
• Small Businesses to NYC: Get Off Our Backs! Autumn 2009
• Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic? Summer 2009
• The City’s Finances, Part 1: Life in Taxopolis 10 July 2009
• The City’s Finances, Part 2: Budget-Cutting Made Simple 6 July 2009
• Obsessive Housing Disorder Spring 2009
• The Least Free State Spring 2009
• The Latino Voting Trickle Winter 2009
• Welfare Reform, Phase Two Winter 2009
• More City Journal Articles

Podcasts

• Edward Glaeser discusses his article "The Reinventive City" with Steven Malanga, 07-08-09
• Brian Anderson and Steven Malanga discuss his article "The City's Finances", 07-02-09
• Steven Malanga discusses his article 'Welfare Reform, Phase Two' with Brian Anderson, 02-03-09
• Steve Malanga reads his article 'The Bailout and the Vanishing Taxpayer', 10-07-08
• Steven Malanga discusses his article 'The Professional Panhandling Plague', 08-24-08
• Steven Malanga reads his article "Why illegal immigration alone doesn't matter", 11-07-07
• Brian Anderson interviews Steven Malanga regarding his article "The New Privatization", 08-05-07